by Jamie Chavez | Jul 16, 2012 | Authors & Other Writers, The Book Biz
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. —Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (1817) A couple years ago it was big news: “Manuscripts Suggest Jane Austen Had a Great Editor” was the headline at NPR’s online...
by Jamie Chavez | Jul 25, 2011 | Your Editor Says …
It astounds me sometimes, the amount of push-back I get when I tell authors, “You know, we don’t double-space after periods anymore.” They absolutely cannot believe it. Dear hearts, it is true. It has been true for at least twenty years, when I flunked a typing test...
by Jamie Chavez | May 30, 2011 | Guest Posts, Your Editor Says …
Hey! It’s my birthday and I’m takin’ the day off! So here’s a little post from my editor friend Billie Brownell.* (And yes, kids, I, too, am a proponent of the Oxford comma. Long before the Chicago Manual of Style was even a gleam in my eye, there was Strunk and...